General (disambiguation)

A general is a high-ranking military officer. There are several grades of general officer in different militaries including

• One-, two-, four-, five, and six-star general
• Brigadier general
• Captain general
• Colonel general
• Divisional General
• General Field Marshal
• General of the Air Force
• General of the Army
• General of the Infantry
• Generalissimo
• Grand General
• Lieutenant general or three-star general
• Major general or sergeant major general (or sergeant general, obsolete)

The term is also used, often post-nominally, to qualify the name of a position to indicate that it covers a larger scope, as in

• Attorney general
• General secretary, also First Secretary
• Postmaster general
• Procurator general in the Catholic Church
• Secretary general
• Superior general or General Superior in the Catholic Church
• Surgeon General
• Vicar general
• Witchfinder General

General or Generals may also refer to:

Sports teams

• Washington Generals, an American exhibition basketball team, known for opposing the Harlem Globetrotters
• New Jersey Generals, a franchise in the defunct United States Football League
• Greensboro Generals, a minor league ice hockey team from Greensboro, North Carolina
• Oshawa Generals, a junior ice hockey team in the Ontario Hockey League
• The Generals, mascot of Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia
• The Generals, mascot of Washington-Lee High School in Arlington, Virginia

Games

• The General (magazine), a wargame magazine published by Avalon Hill.
• General (Freeware game), a strategic game developed by NewGame Software
• Command & Conquer: Generals, a computer game by Electronic Arts
• General, a character in the video game Mega Man X4
• The General, the leader of the Sons of Samedi in Saints Row 2

Other uses

• General (DC Comics), or The General, a comic book character
• General (G.I. Joe), the G.I. Joe Team’s mobile strike headquarters
• General (newspaper), a Malayalam language daily newspaper in Kerala, India
• General (train), a passenger train operated by Pennsylvania Railroad
• General Records, an American record label
• General snus, a popular brand of Swedish snuff
• General Tire and Rubber Company, an American manufacturer of tires for motor vehicles
• El General, a Panamanian artist
• General, the middle of three Standard Grade tiers of the Scottish Qualifications Authority's National Qualifications
• Gold general and Silver general, two game pieces in Shogi.

See also

• Generalization, the American spelling of the use of "general" as an adjective
• The General (disambiguation)
• General-purpose (disambiguation)
• All pages with titles beginning with general
• All pages with titles containing general